Eckhart Tolle Zitate

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23 inspirierende Einblicke in Liebe, Selbstfindung und die Kraft des gegenwärtigen Moments

„Die Vergangenheit hat keine Macht über den gegenwärtigen Moment.“

„Die Hauptursache für Unglück ist niemals die Situation, sondern Ihre Gedanken darüber.“

„Manchmal ist das Loslassen ein Akt von weitaus größerer Macht als das Verteidigen oder Festhalten.“

„Sie finden Frieden nicht, indem Sie die Umstände Ihres Lebens neu ordnen, sondern indem Sie erkennen, wer Sie auf der tiefsten Ebene sind.“

„Einige Veränderungen sehen oberflächlich negativ aus, aber du wirst bald feststellen, dass in deinem Leben Raum geschaffen wird, damit etwas Neues entsteht.“

„Erkenne tief, dass der gegenwärtige Moment alles ist, was du hast. Mache das JETZT zum Hauptfokus deines Lebens.“

„Die Anerkennung des Guten, das Sie bereits in Ihrem Leben haben, ist die Grundlage für alle Fülle.“

„Akzeptieren - dann handeln. Was auch immer der gegenwärtige Moment beinhaltet, akzeptiere es, als hättest du es dir so ausgesucht. Arbeite mit ihm, nicht gegen ihn. Mache ihn zu deinem Freund und Verbündeten, nicht zu deinem Feind. Das wird dein ganzes Leben auf wundersame Weise verändern.“

„Wahre Intelligenz arbeitet im Stillen. Es ist die Stille, in der Kreativität und Problemlösungen zu finden sind.“

„Indem du die 'Ist-heit' aller Dinge zulässt, enthüllt sich dir eine tiefere Dimension, eine anhaltende Gegenwärtigkeit, eine unveränderliche tiefe Stille, eine Freude ohne Ursache jenseits von gut oder böse. Das ist die Freude des Seins, der Friede Gottes.“

„Stille ist Deine wahre Natur. Was ist Stille?“

„Was immer der gegenwärtige Moment enthält, nimm es an, als hättest Du es selber so gewählt.“

„Du bist das Universum, das sich für eine Weile als ein Mensch ausdrückt.“

„Der Verstand ist ein hervorragendes Instrument, wenn er richtig benutzt wird. Bei falschem Gebrauch kann er allerdings sehr destruktiv werden.“

„Sie können nur das verlieren, was Sie haben, aber Sie können nicht verlieren, was Sie sind.“

„Das Leiden ist so lange nötig, bis du erkennst, dass es unnötig ist.“

„Die Hauptursache von Unglücklichsein ist niemals die eigentliche Situation, sondern die Gedanken darüber. Sei dir der Gedanken bewusst, die du denkst. Trenne sie von der Situation, welche immer neutral ist. Es ist, wie es ist.“

„Wo Wut ist, verbirgt sich immer auch Schmerz.“

„Du bist nicht IM Universum, du BIST das Universum, Du bist ein wesentlicher Teil davon. Letztlich bist du keine Person, sondern ein Fokuspunkt, an dem sich das Universum seiner selbst bewusst wird. Was für ein erstaunliches Wunder.“

“On the surface it seems that the present moment is only one of many, many moments. Each day of your life appears to consist of thousands of moments where different things happen. Yet if you look more deeply, is there not only one moment, ever? Is life ever not this moment? This one moment, now, is the only thing you can never escape from. The one constant factor in your life. No matter what happens. No matter how much your life changes. One thing is certain. Its always now. Since there is no escape from the now, why not welcome it, become friendly with it.”

“You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.”

“Only by awakening can you know the true meaning of that word.”

“If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. “How” is always more important than “what.” See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.”

“When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego.”

“Every outer purpose is doomed to “fail” sooner or later, simply because it is subject to the law of impermanence of all things.”

“I cannot live with myself any longer.” This was the thought that kept repeating itself in my mind. Then suddenly I became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. “Am I one or two? If I cannot live with myself, there must be two of me: the ‘I’ and the ‘self’ that ‘I’ cannot live with.”

“The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid an unnecessary danger, just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.”

“Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego.”

“By knowing yourself as the awareness in which phenomenal existence happens, you become free of dependency on phenomena and free of self seeking in situations, places, and conditions. In other words, what happens or doesn't happen is not that important anymore. Things lose their heaviness, their seriousness. A playfulness comes into your life. You recognize this world as a cosmic dance, the dance of form.”

“The ego … reduces the present to a means to an end.”

“The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.”

“… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.”

“If your destination, or the steps you are going to take in the future, take up so much of your attention that they become more important to you than the step you are taking now, then you completely miss the journey’s inner purpose, which has nothing to do with where you are going or what you are doing, but everything to do with how. It has nothing to do with future but everything to do with the quality of your consciousness at this moment.”

“When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.”

“Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment…you can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.”

“Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.”

“Do you treat this moment as if it were an obstacle to be overcome? Do you feel you have a future moment to get to that is more important?
Almost everyone lives like this most of the time. Since the future never arrives, except as the present, it is a dysfunctional way to live. It generates a constant undercurrent of unease, tension, and discontent. It does not honor life, which is Now and never not Now.”

“Listen to people's stories and they all could be entitled "Why I Cannot Be At Peace Now" The ego doesn't know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now.”

“To let go of judgment does not mean that you don’t see what they do. It means that you recognize their behavior as a form of conditioning, and you see it and accept it as that. You don’t construct an identity out of it for that person.
That liberates you as well as the other person from identification with conditioning, with form, with mind.”

“You can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself.”

“A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!”

“We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease…..”

“Be there as the witnessing presence of your inner state. You don’t have to do anything. With the awareness comes transformation and freedom.”

“Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it. … Can you accept the isness of this moment and not confuse it with a story the mind has created around it?”

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you and allowing that goodness to emerge. If peace is really what you want, then choose peace. The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.”

“The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.”

“For this companion volume to A New Earth, I selected passages from the original book that felt particularly suitable for inspirational or meditative reading. For this reason I do not recommend that you read this book straight through from cover to cover. It would be far more beneficial to read, at the most, one chapter at a time, stopping at and perhaps rereading whatever passages elicit an inner response. Then let the words sink in and sense the truth to which they point, which is, of course, already within you. It can also be helpful to open the book at random occasionally, read one page or just one passage and let the words point the way to that dimension deep within that is beyond words, beyond thought. The truth to which the words point, the timeless dimension of consciousness, cannot be arrived at through discursive thought and conceptual understanding.”

“This book itself is a transformational device that has come out of the arising new consciousness. The ideas and concepts presented here may be important, but they are secondary. They are no more than signposts pointing toward awakening. As you read, a shift takes place within you.”